Isaiah 27
1 Hiche nikho teng chule Pakai in tijat umtah man gang tah in achemjam satdoh intin, Leviathan, gang chella kithol gul, kinchuh chuh a kithol gul chu gotna apeh ding ahi. Twi khanglen aum dragon chu atha ding ahi.
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 “Hiche niteng chule lengpi leija aga tam jeh in la a saovin.
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 Keima Pakai in, kana nga tup ding, phatecha tui kana chap khum ding ahi. Sun le jan'a ka ngatup ding, koiman a suhset thei lou ding ahi.
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 Ka lunghan nachu anabei ding ahitai. Ling holeh khao gui ho akhan kahet leh kasat ding ahi; Ka halgop ding ahi-
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 Etiham khatna kaki thopina angaichat lou uleh. Keima toh kichamna sem uhen; ahi, keima toh chamna sem uhen.”
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 Jacob son le pah ten ajung ahin kho nadingu phat a hung lhunge. Israel ajih hung don doh intin, hung pah lhadiu ahi. Chuleh agam leiset chung jouse alodim diu ahi.
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 Pakai in agalmi ho ajep banga, Israel ajep khah ham? Agal mite gotna apeh banga, Israel te gotna apeh khah ham?
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 Ahipoi, tetoh din Israel chu nano mangin ahi. Solam akona huipin ahin mutmang bangin, Israel jong agam'akonin nodoh in aumin ahi.
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
9 Pakai in hiche abol hi Israel te agit lounao vakon suhthenga a chonsetnao jouse lah mang peh ding ati ahi. Hichun semthu pathen maicham kisem namun jouse kisuchip a, leivui kiso ding ahi. Asherah hihen semthu milim houna mun hijong leh khatcha kitung den louding ahitai.
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
10 Khopi kikulkhum ho ana thipchet nin tin, akeoseh hiding, michenna inho ana kidalhan tin, lampiho a hampa ana khul dimset ding ahi. Hilaija chu bongnou hon hampa a naneh diu, hampa mitdoh thah holeh abah ho alhaidiu ahi.
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
11 Miho chu thingbah goplhaho bang diu, ki eh keh a, an hon nadinga meikitih kong tobang diu ahi. Israel hi mingol leh lungthim bei nam ahi, ajehchu amite Pathen akonin akihei mangui. Hijeh achu asem paovin hepina leh lungsetna amusah louhel ding ahi.
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
12 Ahin phat hung lhung ding ahi Pakai in khutna chang le mim akilotup banga thakhat na ahin chom khom ding, khat khatna ahin chomkhom'a-Euphrates luipi solam apatna lhumlam'a vacha neo Egypt gei a ahin chomkhom ding ahi.
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
13 Hiche niteng chule sumkon lentah hung kimut ding ahi. Mitam tah Assyria leh Egypt gam'a dinga ana kinodoh, thi ding kon ho chu Jerusalem'a hung kile uva Pakai chu alhang theng chunga ahou diu ahi.
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
